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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tonashammer

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated in modern forestry plantation on S facing slope of rising ground with good views to E, S and W now obscured by trees. A circular area (approx. diam. 22m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved low earth and stone bank that has been levelled from NE-E-S with slight traces of an external fosse. No entrance feature visible. Several disturbance gaps of modern appearance in the enclosing bank. The interior slopes gently from NW-SE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 January 2017

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